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Shyam (Manoj Kumar) lives in the city with this
mother (Lalita Pawar). He has come of age, so his mother wants him to
get married. She even selects a girl for him, and asks him to go and ...
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Shyam (Manoj Kumar) lives in the city with this mother (Lalita Pawar).
He has come of age, so his mother wants him to get married. She even
selects a girl for him, and asks him to go and meet her. shyam
reluctantly agrees, and travels by train to see the girl and her
parents. During his journey he comes across a con man, Banarsi Prasad
(Inder Sen Johar), and his associates (Radha Kishan, and Vijay Dutt). He
finds later that the con man and his associates had relieved him of his
wallet. He comes across a man, living in a small village, with his
daughter (Vijaya Choudhury). On the pretext of helping him, the father
imprisons him, with a view of forcing him to marry his dauther. Shyam
will have to rely on all his wits to get him out of this situation.
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A friend in need,
Shyam-the only son of a wealthy widow, dashes to Girjapur to hold up the
marriage proceeding of his friend Kesho with Son ill-reputed girl and
carries along Rs. 20000/- in cash for emergencies. Wily Benarasi
Prasad's aids, Mala, Dulare and Jogi are after Shyam in the same train
to steal away the cash from Shyam who, somehow, out tricks them all. On
arrival at Girjapur, the trio bargains off their prospective victim
Shyam to Bhairav Prasad, the elder brother of Benarasi Prasad. Bhairav
manipulates fake marriage between Shyam and Kioli, a girl kidnapped
since childhood, and instructs Koili to knock out the cash for him.
Young Koili is attracted towards Shyam and she helps him escape from the
trap. Koili's loving memory averts Shyam's mission and Shyam, on
reaching Kesho's house, helps through the proposed marriage of his
friend with his ill-reputed fiancée. After the marriage ceremony Shyam
returns to Koili's from Bhairav's fold. Benarasi, jilted lover of Koili,
approaches Shyam's mother and informs her of Shyam's act of kidnapping.
Misinformed mother disbelieves her son's story and turns out Koili from
the house. Externed and distressed Koili encounters a blind retired
Captain, Benarasi Prasad in disguise, and innocently goes along to his
house. Benarasi Prasad plans out an immediate marriage ceremony with
Koili, and Shyam again appears on spot in disguise of Pandit to perform
the sacred rites, and takes away Koili for good, to his own house. This
time under a new name Kaushalya, and introduces her as his friend's
sister. The mother approves of Kaushalya as the right girl for Shyam and
gives her consent for their immediate marriage. Jilted Benarasi Prasad
and his aids masquerade as Sadhus in front of Shyam's house -- Shyam
instructs Koili to remain shut and out of sight but mother plans to take
around her would be daughter-in-law to city circus - The situations
mounts to breath taking climax here, and Shyam is at his wits' end, as
how to keep up his mother illusion of Kaushalya.